Journal
PLOS ONE
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229324
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- FAPESP [2013/50741-7, 2010/51606-8, 2019/04076-8, 2012/15763-7, 2015/13404-8, 2017/08489-0]
- CNPq
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
- Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Zoologia da UFMG
- Investissement d'Avenir grant by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (CEBA) [ANR-10-LABX-25-01]
- Fapemig
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Taxonomists always have had intense discussions about how species should be delimited and recently many studies have used integrative approaches by combining molecular, morphological, and bioacoustic data. Although these studies are paramount for understanding species diversity, few of them actually formalize species delimitations to the final step of nomenclatural acts. Historically, the Neotropical frog genus Adenomera has been considered as a difficult taxonomic group because it comprises many morphologically similar species exhibiting high levels of intraspecific polymorphism. A recent work using molecular data shed light on the phylogenetic relationships within the genus and identified several lineages that may correspond to undescribed species but did not delimit species boundaries. In the Atlantic Forest, a clade formed by A. marmorata and two putative species (Adenomera sp. J and Adenomera sp. K) were identified. In this paper, we combine morphological, acoustic, and molecular data in order to evaluate species limits within this Atlantic Forest Adenomera clade. We provide a redescription of A. marmorata and restrict its type locality to the Tijuca Massif, in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our results do not support A. marmorata and the two candidate species as diagnosable distinct species. Therefore A. marmorata corresponds to a species with pronounced morphological and acoustic variation in the genus and a complex phylogeographic structure.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available